Summary: In no uncertain terms, Jesus says to his disciples, "It's either the world or me—you can't have both; it's either or." When we choose to follow Jesus, like Jacob we are touched in the hollow of our thigh, and in this world's eyes we have a limp. We no longer have that ultra-cool swagger we once possessed. We now appear weak, foolish, lesser, and intellectually inferior. We are now Christians, and there has never been, throughout all of history, anything hip and vogue about following Jesus Christ with abandon. None of us wish for such a limp, but such a limp must accompany the Church triumphant, so that the impediments of self-centeredness and self-glory may be shed and so that the believer might run their race with humble, heavenly gusto.
